Disaster Strikes

The next day.

Before the sun rose, Chen Mo came to the roof.

Unlike the martial arts culture in the honeycomb world, Chen Mo's practice of basic skills would only be regarded as a boring act by ordinary people. There is no similar culture in the misty world. If Chen Mo wants to live a stable life and improve his skill proficiency in the future, he naturally cannot become an alien in the eyes of others.

There are few people on the roof, and it is quiet, and generally no one will pay attention to it.

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Otherwise, if you encounter trouble one day, and you are in a state of no energy, it is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing.

Facing the east, Chen Mo made a horse stance.

Until the first ray of sunlight rushed out of the horizon and shone on Chen Mo's body, he instinctively felt that his body was full of vitality and energy like the morning sun.

His body cells are becoming more and more active.

Huh.

As the sun completely rose from the horizon, Chen Mo finally exhaled the foul air in his chest, ended his horse stance, and slowly stood up.

After wiping the sweat off his forehead, he felt refreshed.

Then he began to use the telekinetic bullet, the corrosion ball, and the despicable telekinetic shield skills until he had used up all the energy in his body, and then drained the energy stored in the one-eyed dragon's eye mask to improve his skill proficiency.

At this time, Chen Mo's telekinetic bullet, corrosion ball, and despicable telekinetic shield skill proficiency were Lv4, Lv1, and Lv3 respectively.

In this way.

Chen Mo's top priority goal is naturally to upgrade the despicable telekinetic shield to Lv4 to obtain the additional attributes of this skill Lv4.

In addition to this.

After all, Chen Mo will have to live in this world for nearly a year.

If time is fully arranged, it is not impossible to upgrade the corrosion ball skill to Lv4.

After all, this is just a D-level skill. Its skill cooldown time and energy consumption are much lower than those of the C-level skill, the Despicable Psychic Shield. The difficulty of improving skill proficiency will undoubtedly be lower.

Even if Chen Mo goes all out, it is not impossible to upgrade the Psychic Bullet to Lv7, but this will undoubtedly greatly delay the time for the Corrosion Ball and the Despicable Psychic Shield to improve proficiency.

After all, Chen Mo's energy value is limited, so you can't have both the shark fin and the bear's paw.

However, the Psychic Bullet is only an E-level skill after all. If Chen Mo devotes himself to it and improves steadily, there is still a considerable chance to upgrade this skill to Lv6.

Thinking of this, Chen Mo, who has completely squandered all the energy in his body, suddenly feels full of confidence.

Strive to improve his strength to a higher level within this year!

"Uncle, you just..."

Just then.

The surprised voice from the side made Chen Mo stunned.

I saw a little head hiding under the clothes on the clothes rack, staring at me with big eyes, surprised. It was the child of the widow's neighbor.

Since this beautiful woman makes a living as a tailor, her roof is naturally full of clothes hangers, which are used to dry the clothes she has mended after washing.

Careless for a moment, Chen Mo did not notice the little boy hiding in the clothes and peeping.

And from the surprised and admiring eyes of the little boy, it is not difficult to see that he has obviously discovered the secret of Chen Mo's ability to use magic.

Seeing this, Chen Mo couldn't help but blame himself.

Without the restraint of a master like Xuanzong, he became lax and careless.

Although it was just a little boy who accidentally discovered his hidden identity, it was not a big deal. After all, the poison masters in this world also have similar abilities, but the thousand-mile dam was destroyed by the ant hole. This incident is undoubtedly a warning to myself, and I must be more careful in the future.

"Uncle, are you a poison master like my father?"

The little boy looked at Chen Mo with excitement, and seemed to admire his dead father very much, which made Chen Mo think of some of his past experiences.

Children from single-parent families must be very hard, right?

So he squatted down, touched the little boy's head and said, "Yes, I am a poison master, but I don't want others to know my identity, so this is our secret, okay?"

"Okay!"

The little boy seemed to have found a treasure, his eyes lit up, and he solemnly agreed.

He took the initiative to ask Chen Mo to swear.

Chen Mo was also happy to play with this little boy. The two of them immediately swore solemnly on the roof, then smiled at each other and became friends.

"By the way, you just said that your father is also a poison master?"

"Yes."

The little boy first showed admiration, and then said sadly: "Mom said that my father was a legendary adventurer in Glory City, and he promised my mother that he would give her a castle. Then my father died in a battle."

"Wayne, it's time for breakfast!"

The beautiful woman's voice came from under the roof, and the little boy hurriedly said: "I'm coming!"

Then he suddenly remembered something, climbed up the ladder and stopped, looked at Chen Mo and said: "My name is Wayne, what about you?"

"Chen Mo."

After getting Chen Mo's name, the smile on Wayne's face reflected the morning sunshine, which was pure without a trace of impurities.

"Uncle Chen Mo, this is our secret!"

After watching the little boy return to the room, Chen Mo shook his head and smiled, and also left the roof.

Today he had to find a way to become a forging apprentice and have his own legal identity in Glory City. It was unrealistic for him to become a real forger or a refiner in one year, but he had to at least understand the rules and mysteries in order to determine whether this deputy position was suitable for him.

After breakfast.

Chen Mo came to the blacksmith workshop district in the north of the city.

There were at least 20 or 30 blacksmith shops of all sizes, but most of them were only responsible for refining the ore collected from the mining area of ​​Glory City into pig iron, which was then sold to those castles or small workshops for making ordinary weapons and farm tools.

There were only four blacksmith shops that could extract the magic material of iron essence from a large amount of pig iron by quenching and purifying.

Iron essence was the most basic material needed to create magic equipment.

This was one of the lowest-level magic materials used to create magic equipment by extracting ancient forging methods.

Chen Mo's goal was naturally to join one of the four blacksmith shops, become an apprentice, and learn forging techniques.

Among the four blacksmith shops, Chen Mo finally chose the one named "Bai Lian Cheng Jin" for the simple reason that only this blacksmith shop in the entire Glory City had experience in extracting copper essence.

Chen Mo had a piece of copper essence obtained from the Schumacher family in his hand.

Like iron essence, copper essence also needs a large amount of brass as raw material, and after thousands of hammers and refinements, one ten-thousandth of copper essence can be extracted.

But the value of brass is undoubtedly several times higher than that of pig iron.

What makes the Glory Mountain forgers even more desperate is that there are no copper mines in the Glory Mountain.

In this way.

Bai Lian Cheng Jin Blacksmith Shop adopted a more primitive way to extract copper essence.

That is, by smelting a large number of copper coins, brass is obtained, and then copper essence is extracted.

After all, copper coins have long been infiltrated into everyone in the Glory Mountain with the migration of generations of adventurers, and the number is so large that it is enough to support the refining of copper essence.

Even if copper coins are occasionally scarce and appreciate in value, there will be chambers of commerce from distant regions that use their worthless copper coins to exchange for gold coins, silver coins and other materials in Glory City to make profits and balance the copper price.

In addition to this method, the only way for Glory Mountains to obtain copper essence is to transport it from the distant Ridge City.

However, the distance between the two cities is long and full of dangers, so it is not realistic to transport ore or brass. Only the more valuable copper essence is possible.

"Hello, are you still recruiting apprentices here?"

"No, no, go away, don't block our business!"

If Chen Mo stopped in front of an ordinary blacksmith shop, someone would have come up and asked what he needed. However, when Chen Mo stood in front of the Bailianchengjin Blacksmith Shop, he was impatiently driven away by the store manager as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Don't you see where this is? You can come in whenever you want?"

Being looked down upon was not pleasant, but after the training of the Hive World, Chen Mo's temper had been smoothed out and he no longer cared about details.

Since it was life, how could it be smooth sailing?

So he dealt with the manager's shoving while smiling and taking out a dozen silver coins.

The manager was slightly stunned when he saw this.

It seemed that he did not expect Chen Mo to take out so many silver coins.

After all, judging from Chen Mo's dress, it was very ordinary, but he was the manager of the Bailianchengjin Blacksmith Shop in the city after all. He had seen some of the world and had no intention of accepting Chen Mo's bribe.

"What do you think of the Bailianchengjin Blacksmith Shop, and who do you think of me?"

Although he said this, the other party's voice was much lower. While pulling Chen Mo to a remote place, he stretched out his right hand and gestured three fingers.

Seeing this, Chen Mo couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Of course he understood what the other party meant, but after what happened in the morning, he couldn't help but think of Xuanzong's teaching that wealth should not be exposed. Although he still had a lot of silver coins and even a few gold coins on him, he acted timidly, gritted his teeth, and took out five more silver coins.

"Please have mercy."

The steward saw this, but showed a cold expression, obviously dissatisfied.

"This is a place where gold is forged! I don't know how many people want to come here to learn skills. Even if you have mediocre qualifications and become an apprentice, you can earn a few silver coins a month, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing. If you have good qualifications, you can become a forger here in three to five years. It's easy to get one or two gold coins a month. You have to think about it."

Chen Mo almost cried when he heard this.

He gritted his teeth and took out a few more silver coins and some copper coins, which seemed to be all his wealth, but the steward didn't mean to let go, and kept persuading Chen Mo to get some more.

People came and went, and people kept noticing this place.

Seeing that Chen Mo really couldn't get the money, the manager began to get impatient.

At this moment.

"Brother?"

A familiar voice, Chen Mo looked back and saw that it was the grandfather and grandson. It was only a day since they last met. Although the red spots on the little girl's body had not gone down, her spirits were much better. Obviously, after being treated by the more skilled pharmacist here, her high fever had subsided.

"It's you."

Chen Mo was also a little surprised. He didn't expect to meet this grandfather and grandson again.

But soon, a scene that shocked him even more appeared!

The steward, who had been harsh and mean to him just a moment ago, now hugged the little girl and asked the old man in surprise: "Dad, why are you here instead of resting at home?"

Then he noticed that his father and daughter actually knew Chen Mo, and asked in confusion: "Who is he?"

"Little brother, we meet again."

The old man did not respond to his son, but greeted Chen Mo with a smile. After all, Chen Mo had been working hard and uncomplainingly with his granddaughter on his back all the way, and he was a real good man. He saw it all and was full of gratitude for Chen Mo.

Then the old man looked at his son.

"This is what I told you yesterday, the good man who carried Xiao Dan all the way, and another little brother, who should have gone to the South City Pharmacy as an apprentice. Don't forget the kindness of others."

"Ah!?"

The steward looked at Chen Mo, and his originally sarcastic face was ashamed.

He immediately pulled Chen Mo to his side and said to his father, "What a coincidence! This young man is thinking of becoming an apprentice at the blacksmith shop I manage. Since he is the good man you mentioned along the way, I will definitely help him no matter what!"